Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Support Group

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) describes a sense of exhaustion and post-exertion malaise, even when you have gotten enough rest and sleep. The disease is characterized by six months of incapacitating fatigue experienced as profound exhaustion and extremely poor stamina, and problems with concentration and short-term memory. The cause is unknown, but it is a...

Chiropracters and Holistic Health..

For the last month I have been seeing a Chiropracter and Accupuncturist I was wondering if other people have tried this approach and what their experiences were.. I am on so many vitamins and mineral supplements it's crazy..

I take a lot of vitamins and supplements too. One of my DR's prescribes them to me and I buy them from her. I used to do acupuncture for migraines but it didn't help me at all. In fact, sometimes it made my headaches worse. I saw a chiropractor for a bout a year and then my neurologist was mad at me and said my tendons and ligaments were stretched out. My PT told me that too. She could tell I went to a chiropractor.

I had no help with accupuncture...tried for months...I've cut down a lot of the supplements they had me on...now I take a Bcomplex,E,C and a real good Multi. You really need to try the accupuncture for a while...It just did not work for me....:(

My only gripe with chiros is that I saw them for years. Many tried to tell me those 'stretched out' ligaments and tendons were due to a nutritional fault on my part. It wasn't true. I have Ehlers-Danlos, Hypermobile Type. I'm bendy and stretchy and dislocate things all the time because of a heritable defect in collagen production. (The neurologist didn't know anything about it, either, fwiw.)

I still have nothing against chiros in general - it's just a somewhat limited view of human health. I've learned to look at each specialty as just that - a specialty, with a somewhat limited view of things. I don't ignore them, but ultimately, I put a holistic PCP (an MD) in the middle of the mix to coordinate and communicate and help me steer my leaky little ship with all these mini-captains on board.

I have seen a Chiro. for a few years. He was the first health care professional who took my cfs seriously. I am not convinced chiro. care is the answer but it does help and he explained the adrenal gland hypothalmus issue to me and placed me on supplements. They do help somewhat. I also find eating lots of fish most helpful. I get adjusted every month or so and it does help some of my aches and pains....I think there are lots of ways of addressing this syndrome so my advice is to try it and see if it provides some improvement....

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